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[Nick B]

You can get an Intel 660p 2tb for just over 200$ right now.  For light duty
you can't come close.
(context:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13078/the-intel-ssd-660p-ssd-review-qlc-nand-arrives/9
it's the world's worst NVME ssd - just don't fill it, which at 2tb is a
pretty easy requirement)
Nick

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 4:19 PM Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, the box is together, and the SSD performance is nothing short of
> amazing, esp compared to SATA interface-connected hard drives.
>
> I ran some benchmark tests and the results showed performance consistent
> with
> the packaging, and the M.2 PCIe x4 interface enables the modest CPU to
> really
> perform well.
>
> It's got me contemplating adding M.2 NVMe to a couple other trivial boxes
> that
> support them (Dell T30 Xeon boxes) - I need to see what speed the interface
> runs at.
>
> I've also seen NVMe to PCI Express x4 add-in cards that look interesting.
>
> Anyway, just wanted to follow-up with results from my efforts.
>
> Lionel
>
> > On Mar 24, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:
> >
> >> On 3/19/19 4:30 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >> Frankly I have always tried to avoid building systems using boards with
> >> integrated graphics.  Possibly it's no longer a concern, but on a*LOT*
> >> of early boards, the required shared-memory partition was*extremely*
> >> problematic and resulted in a horribly unstable system.
> >
> >
> > Mostly it's just slow.
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